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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 62737" data-attributes="member: 2011">It's fairly obvious that the sentence was put in (probably from a playtesting question) so that people would ignore the title. The title is cute. But, it is not the description of the spell. Note: the description does not state that it can only be used for &quot;attack or flight&quot;.Titles are merely titles. Does the word Uller really define everything you are? No, it is a title that allows the rest of us to understand based on experience, who we are discussing something with. Ditto for spell titles. They are mnemonic shortcuts for humans.Unfortunately, there are always going to be people who do not take the big picture of the entire description and get caught up on single words or phrases (&quot;doubles speed&quot; or &quot;attack as well as flight&quot; or &quot;retreat&quot;). People cannot have it both ways. Either you take the literal context, or you take the overall context. Personally, I take what makes the most sense based on what is written.It explicitly takes about &quot;fleetness of foot&quot; for great strides and leaps. It has a sentence in it &quot;attack as well as flight&quot; which implies it can be used for more than the &quot;retreat&quot; of the title (this seems like it is just put in to qualify that the double speed can be used for things other than retreat and only for that reason). It seems to discuss the entire subject with respect to a humanoid target (who typically only has a walking speed and a swimming speed). But, although it goes out of it's way to discuss running and jumping, it does not mention swimming. Why is that?To me, it's because it is meant for walking and jumping movement only: the two movements mentioned explicitly in the spell description. YMMV and obviously does.From the SRD:&quot;The character's speed and maximum jumping distances both double. These benefits count as enhancement bonuses.&quot;It does not say creature, it says character which implies that they were thinking about humanoid characters when they wrote it up. For the Fly spell in the SRD, it says: &quot;The spell’s subject can fly...&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 62737, member: 2011"] It's fairly obvious that the sentence was put in (probably from a playtesting question) so that people would ignore the title. The title is cute. But, it is not the description of the spell. Note: the description does not state that it can only be used for "attack or flight". Titles are merely titles. Does the word Uller really define everything you are? No, it is a title that allows the rest of us to understand based on experience, who we are discussing something with. Ditto for spell titles. They are mnemonic shortcuts for humans. Unfortunately, there are always going to be people who do not take the big picture of the entire description and get caught up on single words or phrases ("doubles speed" or "attack as well as flight" or "retreat"). People cannot have it both ways. Either you take the literal context, or you take the overall context. Personally, I take what makes the most sense based on what is written. It explicitly takes about "fleetness of foot" for great strides and leaps. It has a sentence in it "attack as well as flight" which implies it can be used for more than the "retreat" of the title (this seems like it is just put in to qualify that the double speed can be used for things other than retreat and only for that reason). It seems to discuss the entire subject with respect to a humanoid target (who typically only has a walking speed and a swimming speed). But, although it goes out of it's way to discuss running and jumping, it does not mention swimming. Why is that? To me, it's because it is meant for walking and jumping movement only: the two movements mentioned explicitly in the spell description. YMMV and obviously does. From the SRD: "The character's speed and maximum jumping distances both double. These benefits count as enhancement bonuses." It does not say creature, it says character which implies that they were thinking about humanoid characters when they wrote it up. For the Fly spell in the SRD, it says: "The spell’s subject can fly..." [/QUOTE]

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